Make a digital business card without an account.

What the file contains

The download is one contact, not a spreadsheet. It is vCard 3.0: BEGIN:VCARD,VERSION:3.0, and END:VCARD, with CRLF line endings. A single name field is written as FN (the name a phone shows) and as the family-name part ofN, because this form does not split given name and surname. Company isORG. Title is TITLE. Phone is TEL;TYPE=CELL. Email isEMAIL;TYPE=INTERNET. Each kept link is a URL, and the labels are repeated in NOTE so a phone that only shows URLs still has them, and a phone that shows notes still has the label you typed.

BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:3.0
N:Lovelace\, Ada;;;;
FN:Lovelace\, Ada
ORG:Analytical Engines
TITLE:Analyst
TEL;TYPE=CELL:+1 555 010 1999
EMAIL;TYPE=INTERNET:ada@example.com
URL:https://example.com/ada
NOTE:Website: https://example.com/ada
END:VCARD

Commas, semicolons, backslashes, and line breaks inside a name, title, company, or note are escaped. Lovelace, Ada stays one name. A pasted line break becomes the two characters \n, so it cannot close the card early and start a second contact. Lines longer than 75 bytes are folded: the next physical line begins with a space, which a reader removes. The file is UTF-8. vCard 3.0 does not put a charset on each property; the download type is text/vcard;charset=utf-8.

What the QR code is

The square is the same vCard text, not a link to this tool and not an image from another site. It is drawn here with error correction M, which can recover about 15 percent of damaged modules, and a quiet zone of four modules so a camera has a margin. Scan it and the phone should offer to add the contact. That code is a snapshot. If the phone number changes, a printed copy is stale. A SayHi page is the copy you can edit later. The QR on this tool is the vCard, so it works before you claim a username. The save button on the published page includes https://sayhi.page/yourname as a URL on the card.

After you publish

“Edit in the studio” opens the Elegant template: serif type, your title under your name, then company, phone, email, and links. It also adds a short contact form, so someone who scanned your card can send a note instead of copying a number. Publish it and the card lives at sayhi.page/yourname, where you can change a phone number or a job title without reprinting anything. Visitors get a “Save contact” button that downloads the same vCard, and messages from the form land in your SayHi inbox with the usual spam protection.

Consultants and freelancers who need a page a client can open, rather than only a file, can start from the card and keep theconsultant page or thefreelancer page in mind while editing. The card does not book calls or send proposals.

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